BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (AP) — It has no windows — but offers unrestricted views of Armageddon.
Northern Ireland is selling its Cold War-era nuclear bunker, an underground installation with room for 235 beds that sellers imagine could be transformed into a tourist attraction or blast-proof storage facility.
Journalists took a tour Thursday of one of Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offerings. For 575,000 pounds ($850,000), the successful buyer could acquire a 46,363-square-foot (4,300-square-meter) grass-topped building discretely situated on 3.74 acres (1.51 hectares) of rolling fields northwest of Belfast.
Some of the sleeping quarters inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Northern Ireland’s leaders have decided they can survive without the bunker, which was built in the 1980s to protect key government and legal figures from a Russian nuclear strike. The facility includes a conference room and broadcasting suite. Its existence was a state secret until 2007.
The nuclear bunker that was built during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The main conference and control room inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Perfect Headquarters for Ralph Nader’s 2016 campaign.
That would make a lovely new home for the Bilderberg Group, don’t ya think? All those folks could cozy up in one place in complete anonymity.
America is way ahead of Ireland in this. I present Atlas missile bases and silos as luxury homes. Here’s just one of them: http://www.silohome.com/
I was all over that until I found out it didn’t include the missile.
really. without that, it’s just another big hole in the ground.